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Why does Italy ignore its ‘black’ history?

by Catherine Fletcher on January 20, 2014

Reading last week that an Italian MP, Gianluca Buonanno of the Northern League, had ‘blacked up’ to deliver an anti-immigration speech in parliament brought me back to a question I periodically contemplate. Why does Italy

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